With successive waves of environmental foreboding predicted by the world’s leading scientific authorities, hopeful nature-based solutions for the planet’s future have never been more necessary. Fortunately, from increasing the productivity of degraded lands...

IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, in collaboration with the Ministry of Climate Change, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Serena Hotels, celebrated the International Day for Biodiversity at the Serena Hotel in Islamabad on May 22...

IUCN European Regional Office explores the issues around forest ecosystems and the contributions they can make to global challenges such as climate change in the context of its work for the SINCERE project on forest ecosystem services.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre wish to express their deep sadness at the death of one of the most senior specialists on World Heritage and forest conservation, Peter Hitchcock AM.

IUCN, the government, partners, and a key local governance working group collaborate to ensure sustainable land management in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Mangai landscape – through the application of the restoration opportunities assessment methodology...

Few are not familiar with the story of a unique goose and the golden eggs that made its master rich, until greed drove him to kill the bird. This ancient fable of Aesop’s has many equivalents around the world, reaching back millennia. Yet in all this time, we...

Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity Day, being celebrated all over the world to highlight the significance of the Biological Diversity on earth. The theme for the year 2019 is “Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health”. The theme...

Red tides or harmful algal blooms (HABs) occur when excess nutrients in the water enable the out of control growth of algae. That produces toxins that are concentrated in fish and especially shellfish and make us sick when we swim in contaminated water or eat...

The Forum will include a Knowledge Day which will be open to the general public, with experience exchange panels, expert talks, audiovisual presentations, and posters about conservation and sustainable development experiences.

The official advisory body on natural World Heritage, IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature, recommends listing four new World Heritage sites for their outstanding natural value in Brazil, France, Iceland and Iran, and approving the extension...

Constructive discussions of protected area managers and national experts from Central Asia at a workshop convened by IUCN in Almaty, Kazakhstan in April 2019 resulted in the assessment of threats and management effectiveness of three natural World Heritage...

By Dr. Julien Bétaille - Dr. Bétaille, Associate Professor of Law the at the University of Toulouse (France), recently published an article on the rights of nature in the Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law, as a contribution to the academic...

With great sadness we received the news that Dr Ljupco Melovski, a full-time professor at the Institute of Biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje and one of the leading conservationists in South-Eastern Europe, has passed away at...